单词 | tragicomically |
释义 | tragicomicallyadv. In the manner or style of a tragicomedy; both tragically and comically. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adverb] > tragedy > and comedy tragicomically1645 1645 J. Wilde Speech House of Commons 5 They have acted their parts Tragicomically. 1733 J. Bramston Man of Taste 4 I was tragi-comically got. a1750 A. Hill Snake in Grass in Dramat. Wks. (1760) II. 99 Make me the song, tragi-comically. 1809 Morning Chron. 2 June We can fancy to ourselves the procession which that print so tragi-comically describes. 1875 Fraser's Mag. May 656/1 A droll dinner scene that threatened at one moment to end somewhat tragi-comically. 1902 A. C. Swinburne in Q. Rev. July 25 The dissolution of a ruined household is..tragicomically set before us. 2004 New Yorker 14 June 96/1 He is clad in a dark coat, the collar striated with lint and dandruff, the sleeves tragicomically short. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1645 |
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